A day after Housing New Zealand (HNZ) was exposed for handing sensitive information to the Mongrel Mob, it has been revealed police did the same thing.
Five tenants with gang affiliations in the Lower Hutt suburb of Pomare were this month served with 90-day eviction notices as a result of alleged intimidation.
It was revealed yesterday the Mob members were mistakenly given confidential information including the address of a local HNZ staff member and the new address of a former neighbour who had been forced to relocate following threats and intimidation.
TV3 News reported tonight that police had also mistakenly left a document related to the eviction with members of the Mob.
The document detailed Operation Whiteware, the investigation into the intimidation case and eviction of 10 members of Anthony Pairama's family from five State houses in Farmer Cres, Pomare.
The document, which was labelled "restricted", contained the names and responsibilities of 50 officers working on the case, a risk assessment of the street, details of how raids would be carried out and the radio call signs police used to identify themselves.
It also included details of the woman whose original complaint of intimidation sparked the police investigation, and details on the senior Housing New Zealand staff member, who had fled her home and was now under police protection.
Mr Pairama told TV3 he planned to use the details "in a complaint so we can try and stop the 90-day eviction, or something".
Police picked up the documents today from 3 News in Wellington, and declined to comment on how they ended up with the Mongrel Mob.
Mr Pairama said police were in a hurry and had left them behind.
An employment investigation was under way at Housing New Zealand into how sensitive documents were released to tenants it was evicting.
HNZ chief executive Lesley McTurk said Housing New Zealand would be helping the evicted tenants to find new accommodation, which would not be HNZ houses.
